guerrilla tactics
Unconventional warfare strategies
Guerrilla tactics are methods of unconventional warfare used by smaller, mobile forces against larger conventional armies—ambushes, sabotage, hit-and-run raids, and blending into civilian populations.
The term extends to any strategy where an underdog uses surprise, flexibility, and disruption rather than direct confrontation: guerrilla marketing, guerrilla gardening.
The campaign used guerrilla tactics to outmaneuver better-funded opponents.
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- hit and runLeaving after causing accident
- night raidsArmed operations after sundown
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
hit-and-run · infiltration · behind enemy lines · enemy territory · safe houses · subversion · supply lines · irregular warfare · propaganda · hearts and minds · maquis · communication networks · partisan · misinformation · camouflage · strategic retreat · asymmetrical warfare · booby traps
- Greek Independenceuprising, Greek War of Independence, liberation struggle, revolt, revolutionaries
- strategystrategy, grand strategy, tactic, tactical, strategist
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- strategiesambush, flanking, feint, diversion, counterattack
- tacticsmaneuver, counter-attack, gambit, ambush, counterstrike
- aggressive tacticsblitz, blitzkrieg, frontal assault, offensive, attack mode
guerrilla tacticsconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
pitched battle · frontal assault · trench warfare · traditional warfare · attrition warfare
guerrilla tacticsdecisive battle
Conflict resolving the war
holding ground · territorial defense · siege warfare · fortification